Unit 4 quiz/ final review
In plessy v. ferguson, the supreme court: a. ruled that "seperate but equal" accommodations were constitutional b. ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were unconstitutional c. supported the right of women to vote d. supported the right of workers to join unions e. supported the right of African-Americans to vote
a.
The Ghost Dance: a. was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites b. was seen as harmless c. was approved by the bureau as harmless d. brought Indians and whites together in a cultural celebration e. ushered in a new era of Indian wars
a.
The fifteenth amendment: a. sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race b. made states responsible for determining all voter qualifications c. granted women the right to vote in federal but not state elections d. was endorsed by president Andrew Johnson e. was drafted by susan b. anthony
a.
The first billion-dollar enterprise corporation was: a. US steel b. standard oil c. A&P d. international harvester e. Quaker oats
a.
The progressive presidents were: a. Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson B. Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt C. Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses s. grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes D. Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley E. William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Warren G. Harding
a.
What did the freedmen request in their "petition of committee on behalf of the freedmen to Andrew Johnson" in 1865? a. the right to purchase a homestead b. an opportunity to attend a black college c. the purchase of some mules d. help reuniting their family that had been sold e. the right to vote
a.
Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the progressive movement? a. unskilled immigrant workers b. the urban middle class c. women d. muckraker journalists e. college professors
a.
Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern securities company? a. Theodore Roosevelt b. Samuel Gompers c. William Howard d. Louis Brandeis e. Woodrow Wilson
a.
After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage: a. maintained an increasingly elitist approach b. included both middle and working class women c. stagnated d. was most successful in the Northeast e. was fought only on the federal level
b.
Most of those termed "scalawags" during reconstruction had been: a. owners of large southern plantations before the civil war b. non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern up-country prior to the civil war c. enslaved African Americans before emancipation d. union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the south e. confederate officers and confederate government officials during the civil war
b.
The Indian victory at little bighorn: a. was typical at the time b. only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement c. brought an end to the hostilities d. came after an unprovoked attack by Indians e. resulted in no US army casualities
b.
The _______ made possible the second industrial revolution in America a. oil industry b. railroads c. iron industry d. textiles e. cotton gin
b.
The sixteenth amendment: a. called for the direct election of senators b. authorized congress to implement a graduated income tax c. granted women the right to vote d. prohibited the use and sale of alcohol e. instituted the initiative, referendum, and recall
b.
The triangle shirtwaist fire: a. was the worst fire in US history b. brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation c. destroyed the business, but there were no casualties d. occurred during the uprising of the 20,000 e. resulted in laws that banned all manufacturing in New York
b.
Which was the Ellis Island of the West? a. San Diego b. Angel Island c. Alcatraz d. San Francisco e. Liberty Island
b.
the enforcement acts, passed by congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to: a. end reconstruction by allowing state governments to oversee citizenship rights b. stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the KKK c. enforce the emancipation proclamation in the confederate states d. increase the authority of the freedmens bureau e. eliminate racial discrimination in public spaces such as hotels and theaters
b.
After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range? a. Indians b. Buffalo c. Cowboys d. Pioneers e. Pony Express riders
c.
As a progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt: a. demanded less economic regulation b. supported the interests of big business c. supported the conservation movement d. dismantled the interstate commerce commission e. established the federal reserve system
c.
Bonanza farms: a. were small, self sufficient farms b. were the sharecropping farms found in the south c. typically had thousands of acres of land or more d. were free homesteads in California e. were settled along the railroad lines of the Union Pacific
c.
For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant: a. railroading building b. jobs c. land ownership d. voting e. jury duty
c.
In 1912, new freedom: a. was Theodore Roosevelt's campaign pledge that government should have a greater regulatory role b. was Eugene Debs's campaign pledge that government should abolish all private property c. was Woodrow Wilson's campaign pledge that government should renew economic competition with less government intervention d. was the campaign slogan of the women's suffrage movement e. was a term coined by Margaret Sanger for the birth control movement
c.
The Dawes Act of 1887: a. empowered Indians b. assured Indian autonomy c. sought to break up the tribal system d. was a great success e. hurt white interests in the west
c.
The Spanish-American war: a. lasted several years b. was a victory for Spain c. brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under US control d. resulted in thousands of US combat deaths e. ended American expansionism
c.
The civil rights bill of 1866: a. was proposed by border-state democrats b. provided African-Americans with the right to vote c. defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race d. allowed states to determine essential citizenship standards e. won the support of President Andrew Johnson
c.
The freedmen's bureau: a. was badly administered because director O. O. Howard lacked military experience b. won much southern white support because it was consistently supported the planters in disputes with former slaves c. made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care d. carried out a successful program of distributing land to every former slave family e. enjoyed the strong support of President Johnson in its work on behalf of civil rights
c.
The progressive movement drew its strength from: a. big business b. farmers c. middle-class reformers d. military leaders e. socialists
c.
The whiskey ring scandal took place during the administration of: a. abraham lincoln b. andrew johnson c. ulysses grant d. rutherford hayes e. chester arthur
c.
The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was: a. Henry George b. Theodore Dreiser c. Upton Sinclair d. Ida Tarbell e. Lincoln Steffens
c.
Which event marked the end of the Indian wars? a. battle of little big horn b. surrender of of chief joseph and the Nez Perce c. battle of wounded knee d. establishment of the ghost dance e. surrender of the sitting bull
c.
the theory of social darwinism argued that: a. public assistance should be available for the poor b. giant corporations were inherently evil c. the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor d. the poor were in no way responsible for their poverty e. excessive personal wealth was a sign of weakness
c.
A cause not widely championed by progressives was: a. regulating industry b. women's suffrage c. prohibiting alcohol d. civil rights for blacks e. reducing the poverty of the cities
d.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: a. faced no criticism for their business practices b. led the way in social reform c. advocated government regulation of business d. built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets e. were both immigrants
d.
In the South, the Redeemers: a. supported the rights of blacks b. continued the policies of reconstruction c. supported public education d. imposed a new racial order e. passed no new laws
d.
Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as: a. yellow journalists b. trustees c. social reformers d. muckrakers e. freelancers
d.
The election of 1876: a. was won by rutherford b. hayes, by a landslide b. was finally decided by the supreme court c. marked the final stage of reconstruction, which ended in 1880 d. was tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana e. was won by ulysses s. grant, by a narrow count
d.
The fourteenth amendment: a. passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner b. specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which freed people were entitled c. represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race d. marked the most important change in the US constitution since the bill of rights e. placed into the US constitution an essential holding of the dred scott decision
d.
The social gospel: a. was another term for Social Darwinism b. was financed by corporate donations c. was part of the Catholic Church d. called for an equalization of wealth and power e. did not support aid to the poor
d.
Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus? a. Indians b. Working-class families c. Chinese d. blacks e. white sharecroppers
d.
All of the following measures expanded democracy during the progressive era EXCEPT: a. the seventeenth amendment to the constitution b. the use of primary elections among party members to select candidates c. the nineteenth amendment to the constitution d. the popular election of judges e. literacy tests and residency requirements
e.
All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT: a. racial segregation b. disenfranchisement c. limiting economic opportunities d. inferior education e. outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes
e.
As a progressive president, Woodrow Wilson: a. raised tariffs immediately b. aggressively engaged in trust busting c. always advocated for the interests of labor d. created no new government agencies e. signed into law the Keating-Owens act
e.
Between 1890 and 1906, southern state governments and white southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT: a. the grandfather clause b. literacy and understanding tests c. poll taxes d. violence and intimidation e. racial tests
e.
Chief Joseph: a. advocated greater federal control of Indians b. Starred in a wild west show c. was at the little bighorn d. supported the reservation system e. wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Perce
e.
In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were: a. unheard of b. used only rarely c. against the law d. seen as beneficial by consumers e. ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace
e.
Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century: a. learned English immediately b. planned to remain in the US temporarily c. generally earned lower wages in America than in their former homelands d. dominated skilled and supervisory jobs e. lived in close-knit communities
e.
Sharecropping: a. meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks b. was a compromise between African-Americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor c. was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia d. became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity e. was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision)
e.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: a. was directed only at women and illiterates b. was not racially motivated c. was found unconstitutional d. favored Japanese immigrants e. prohibited any Chinese from entering the US
e.
The massive hunting of what animal hurt the plains Indians? a. horses b. deer c. antelope d. Indians e. buffalo
e.
Thomas Edison: a. invented the typewriter b. was a governor of New Jersey c. pioneered the use of the telephone d. was a railroad owner e. invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity
e.
What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the US house of representatives? a. he fired secretary of state William Seward, an ally of radical republicans b. he vetoed a bill to extend the life of the freedmen's bureau c. he bribed a republican senator to support his reconstruction policies d. he defiantly released a letter showing he had given support to the confederacy in 1863 e. he allegedly violated the tenure of office act
e.
